Deskpro Workstation 300 Achieves 5-Star Rating from CATIA Solutions Magazine

¡¡CATIA Solutions Magazine awarded a 5 star rating to the Deskpro Workstation 300 with a FireGL2 graphics card. This is their highest rating. The announcement appears in the March 1st edition. "System performance of this system is the best we have ever seen with a score of 64.2." writes Phil Harrison, and concludes "the Compaq DeskPro Workstation 300 offers excellent performance at a bargain price, it is highly recommended."
¡¡Speed and power are provided by industry leading Intel? Pentium? 4 processor with clock speed of a blistering 1.5 GHz in the surprisingly affordable Deskpro Workstation 300. High-speed processors will only go so fast if they are retarded by front-end bus bottlenecks or insufficient and under-performing memory. However, Compaq overcomes these potential problems with the sizzling 400 MHz bus technology in the new Deskpro Workstation 300. Standard RAMBUS ECC RDRAM high performance memory tackles even the most memory intensive applications, with system expansion potential as much as 2 GB.
¡¡Of course a design workstation cannot provide optimal performance without powerful graphics solutions. That¡¯s why Compaq has developed the Graphics Excellence Program. By working closely with graphics partners, Compaq is able to be first to market with a wider variety of graphics solutions, offering them on a wider variety of platforms and at higher levels of performance. One of these graphics cards, the FireGL 2 was used in this benchmark.
¡¡The Deskpro Workstation 300 starts at $1974.